

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1 hour 42 minutes1971-04-14
6.5
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An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Cast

Georg Lehn
Hans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef Cramer
Jacob Geiz

Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie

Walter Buschhoff
Pfarrer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bauer

Reinhard Hauff
Heinrich Geiz

Wolfgang Bächler
David Briel

Karl-Heinz Merz
Landschütz Volk

Joe Hembus
Schreiber

Karl Renar

Harald Müller
Johann Soldan

Maria Donnerstag
Frau Geiz

Angelika Hillebrecht
Johanna Soldan

Harry Owen
Ludwig Acker

Wilhelm Grasshoff
Richter Danz
